Tonight, “Crutchfield” ties up loose ends, and sets a definite tone for season two. Poor Gallinger. What does he have left? In one season he has lost his career, two babies, and now his wife. I would love to see him turn his life around in season two, but can someone survive so much trauma? It will come as a shock to no one that Robertson ends up getting an abortion from the Sister and Cleary. She seems surprised that Edwards does not feel like hugging it out after the fact. They both deal with the termination (of both baby and relationship) in similar ways. He surrenders his face for a back alley beat down while she plasters a smile on hers and runs off to get married and look forward to a lifetime of sexual assault at the hands of her father-in-law. Ugh. Besides, is it too much to ask that he skip a debt payment and buys a prostitute instead? It may not have been the smartest move, buying one of Bunky’s prostitutes with what was, technically, Bunky’s money. Anywho. The weasel, being a clever little dickens, figures he can convince Thack’s Chinatown connection to kill Bunky under the pretext that he would be doing a favor for the surgeon. Too bad for the weasel, Ping Wu knows how to read (“left to right, not just up and down”) Bunky’s ledger. The weasel has managed to trade in one psycho loan shark for, well, another psycho loan shark. Thank god Robertson, Sr. and the board have decided to shutter the Knick and move downtown. Full disclosure, it is this viewer’s opinion that a certain pair of earrings, received as a wedding gift, will be used to rescue the Knick from financial ruin. Do you see where this is going? Of course the first step to a successful blood transfusion is to not give the sick patient your own cocaine laden blood. Imagine getting a blood transfusion from Richard Pryor in the ‘70s. Murdering a patient outright finally pushes Thack right over the edge. Luckily, Lucy is there to catch him. She enlists the much abused and outwardly bitter Bertie to get Thack into a reputable rehab program. Not to worry; the physicians are using a new, perfectly safe, treatment developed by the Bayer drug company. It eliminates cocaine addiction with virtually no symptoms of withdrawal. Wow. That newfangled “heroin” really is a wonder drug! Fun Fact @AtTheKnick: Early doctors believed that mental insanity was caused by physical infection of the teeth. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
